Weighing meat cooked or uncooked on dave's diet

[fitange]

Hi
I have been weighing my chicken,salmon and beef uncooked and I need a serving of 6oz and 1 of 4oz, but now I have been hearing that it's supposed to be measured after cooking it.

What's the right way, cooked or uncooked?

Also what weight would chicken be uncooked to make it 6oz cooked please?

Thank you.

[AVBG]

Weigh all food cooked, there is way too much variance in estimating how much to cook.. I generally will allow 20-30% of the weight to evaporate as a result of cooking.

[fitange]

Weigh all food cooked, there is way too much variance in estimating how much to cook.. I generally will allow 20-30% of the weight to evaporate as a result of cooking.

thanks very much.

[PYGMY]

I always weigh my meat uncooked. If you take four 5oz servings of skinless boneless chicken breast with the fat trimmed off and cook each serving using a different method...for instance,

Serving #1 is grilled.
Serving #2 is baked.
Serving #3 is boiled.
Serving #4 is pan fried.

They are all going to weigh different amounts when fully cooked. The same method of cooking can even produce different results, like if you were to bake the chicken at 350 degrees for 40 minutes and another batch of chicken at 450 for 30 minutes. They're gonna weigh different when you pull them out of the oven. How are you suppost to be sure your taking in the same amount of nutrients from the chicken in each meal week after week with that much variable in the equation?

5oz's of raw chicken is 5oz's of raw chicken. That's all there is to it. Any weight that is lost is only water and some fat. You can't cook out protein unless you set that bitch on fire and leave it until the whole serving is crusty black.

So for those reasons I personally always calculate my serving portions while the meat is raw. That way no matter how I end up cooking it after it's weighed raw I'm still getting the amount of protein I was meaning to. Only thing that's sucks about doing it this way is that you have to weigh the meat twice. Once while raw, and again after it's cooked to divide it up into the amount of meals you're preparing.

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[Timbo89]

@ pygmy

Just because you weigh it raw doesn't mean its always the same amount. One could still be holding more water than the other while raw. Therefore the macro breakdown will not always be the same.

[fitange]

@ pygmy

Just because you weigh it raw doesn't mean its always the same amount. One could still be holding more water than the other while raw. Therefore the macro breakdown will not always be the same.

Timbo - do you weight it cooked or raw?

Dave told me to weigh it cooked, so thats what i am going to do.

[Timbo89]

Timbo - do you weight it cooked or raw?

Dave told me to weigh it cooked, so thats what i am going to do.

I tend to weigh it cooked since this is when it will have the least ammount of water.

[Pheedno]

I dont think it matters as long as it's consistent. I weigh all food uncooked, but your manipulations to the diet change based on how the body is reacting. If you weigh uncooked, you'll make adjustments relative to what that macro breakdown will do, and the same if you weigh cooked.

[Timbo89]

I dont think it matters as long as it's consistent. I weigh all food uncooked, but your manipulations to the diet change based on how the body is reacting. If you weigh uncooked, you'll make adjustments relative to what that macro breakdown will do, and the same if you weigh cooked.

I agree there, as long as you're consistent and know how to manipulate your diet if you aren't seeing progress, it shouldn't matter which you choose.

[PYGMY]

@ pygmy

Just because you weigh it raw doesn't mean its always the same amount. One could still be holding more water than the other while raw. Therefore the macro breakdown will not always be the same.

I think I see what you're saying, and if I'm understanding you right I think it would only cause a problem if you were cooking each meal individually and packaging them individually. I cook all 6-7 meals worth of chicken in one dish, and when it cools after coming out of the oven and weigh the whole batch. Then I take that number and divide it by 6-7, which would give me the weight for each meal. I tear up the chicken and start weighing out each meal. Seems like any variance in water weight while raw wouldn't be a big concern doing it this way.